A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories

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A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories is a collection of supernatural tales by M. R. James that showcases his influential, understated style of English ghost story writing.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
short story collection
author M. R. James
containsWork A Neighbour’s Landmark
A Warning to the Curious
An Episode of Cathedral History
Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book
Casting the Runes
Count Magnus
Lost Hearts
Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance
Number 13
Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad
The Ash-tree
The Diary of Mr. Poynter
The Haunted Dolls’ House
The Mezzotint
The Residence at Whitminster
The Rose Garden
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
The Tractate Middoth
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
The Uncommon Prayer-Book
There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
Two Doctors
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
genre ghost story
supernatural fiction
hasInfluenceOn modern ghost story writers
hasMainTheme consequences of curiosity
encounters with the supernatural
haunted objects and places
language English
literaryMovement English ghost story tradition
literaryStyle understated
notableFor minimal explicit violence
scholarly and antiquarian settings
subtle supernatural atmosphere

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M. R. James notableWork A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories
Montague Rhodes James notableWork A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories
A Thin Ghost and Others followedBy A Thin Ghost and Others is followed by later M. R. James collections such as "A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories"
linked to: A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories
Collected Ghost Stories containsWork A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories